What We Ate & Loved

A weekly sequence the place we share our household’s precise Mediterranean weight loss program meal plan, together with a couple of issues we’ve been loving this previous week. The aim is to easily share meal and recipe concepts. 

Our Mediterranean Eating regimen Meal Plan

We share our household’s weekly meal plan merely for meal concepts and recipe inspiration for anybody else searching for ideas. Please understand that each household and particular person is totally different and that is simply what works for us. 

We’ve saved all our earlier weekly meal plans in a single handy location – Weekly Mediterranean Diet Meal Plans. 

How We Meal Plan

We go extra in depth on how we go about planning meals on this publish – Meal Planning Guide however simply to rapidly summarize – 

• Breakfast is normally fairly commonplace in our home so I don’t embrace it on our meal plan checklist
• My youngsters both carry a bagged lunch or purchase scorching lunch in school so I solely meal plan for my lunch (and my husband if he’s working from house that day)
• I embrace notes on some days to point if the meal is one thing we’ve to make rapidly, on the go, and so forth. This actually helps on the subject of planning meals and shopping for meals to know our schedule prematurely. 
• On Saturdays we usually eat leftovers and eat out for lunch or dinner. I point out that on the meal plan every week however simply in case you had been questioning 

What We Ate This Week

In comparison with final week’s meal plan, this week was a lot smoother. We had been in a position to keep on our schedule very well and subsequently had a number of leftovers to select from for Thursday dinner.

Sunday was Mom’s Day so we had my mother over for a light-weight lunch of cheese and crackers, fruit and tomato salad. For dinner, the children picked what we made so burgers and fries it was.

Recipe Hyperlinks for What We Ate

These are the recipe hyperlinks for the meal plan objects we ate this previous week. Some issues we ate don’t have a hyperlink or recipe…for instance the nights we ordered in, and so forth.

For Greek Veggie Bowls – I used this Greek Chicken Bowls recipe and easily omitted the hen. I additionally added white beans and bell peppers to make it a little bit extra filling.

I created this Recipe Reel on Instagram for the recipe.

This Air Fryer Chicken recipe is so easy! This week, I used hen thighs (boneless, skinless) after which topped it with a jarred Artichoke Unfold I picked up from Dealer Joe’s.

What We Liked this Week

This week I can say was very heavy on artichokes. My entire household loves them so it’s all the time a go to veggie after I need one thing that nobody will complain about.

We used a wide range of forms of artichokes this week –

• Contemporary – I merely minimize off the underside stem, put in a bowl with water and cook dinner them within the microwave for about 6-8 minutes. Then all of us simply dip them in melted butter
• Frozen – I didn’t even know frozen artichoke hearts had been a factor till I noticed a recipe on TikTok. I purchased two baggage and used one to recipe take a look at some air fryer hearts however the different I merely sautéed with some garlic and mushrooms and utilized in a chickpea pasta dinner earlier this week.
• Canned – I all the time have canned artichoke hearts within the pantry. They’re so good in salads, on hen, and with fish.

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Final modified: Might 12, 2022